Our Team
Program Leads
The Deep Earth Imaging Future Science Platform is led by Tim Munday with the support of the platform coordinator, Caroline Johnson.
Our research science focus is underpinned by three pillars; Imaging, Conceptualisation and Prediction, and delivered by four research programs, each led by a nominated program leader:
- Claudio Delle Piane – Geological Processes (Basins) Program
- Juerg Hauser – Advanced Inversion Techniques Program
- Luk Peeters – System Conceptualisation Program
- Erdinc Saygin – Geoscience Imaging Program
Research Team
Our core research is led by these program leaders and delivered through our postdoctoral research fellows and early career researchers. The research of these scientists is aligned with one or more of our fundamental research programs.
Deep Earth Imaging’s early career researchers:
- Gerhard Visser, machine learning
- Jelena Markov, potential field geophysics
- Mehdi Tork Qashqai, passive seismic imaging and lithospheric properties
- Abeer Mazher, data science, machine learning and remote sensing
- Hoël Seille, magnetotelluric geophysics
- Peng Guo, full waveform seismic imaging
- Cericia Martinez, potential field geophysics
- Vincent Crombez, sedimentology and stratigraphic modelling
- Brady Flinchum, hydrogeology and near-surface geophysics
- Coralie Siegel, geochemistry
- Roman Beloborodov, seismic inversion, quantitative interpretation, digital rock physics
- Pascal Castellazzi, hydrogeology and hydrogeodesy
- Vanessa Biondo Ribeiro, potential field geophysics
- Yuan Mei, computational geochemistry and synchrotron science
- Ulrich Kelka, structural geology and fracture mechanics
- Stefan Westerlund, high-performance computing
- Hassan Talebi, geospatial data analytics and geostatistics
- Yunfeng Chen, passive seismic imaging
- Guillaume Rongier, simulation and geostatistics
- Chris Turnadge, joint solutions for model sensitivities
- Yuqing Chen, full waveform seismic imaging
- Mrinal Sinha, fibre-based distributed sensing
- Gan Duan, geochemistry
- Sarah Marshall, hydrogeology
- Patrick Makuluni, geophysics and geology
Senior scientists engaged with Deep Earth Imaging’s research activities include:
- David Annetts, geophysics
- Marina Pervukhina, rock physics and petrophysics
- Thomas Poulet, mathematical geoscience
- Shouvojit Sarker, software engineer
A key aim of Deep Earth Imaging is to train the next generation of scientists in methods needed for 21st century exploration and resource management. To assist this effort, we also provide support to PhD research projects at strategically selected Australian universities.